By ArtBear | Published:
July 10, 2009
English Proud, thoughtful, refined, moderate, communicative and articulate. Dishonest, cold, distant, passive-aggressive, sensitive (especially to conflict) Irish Passionate, honest, humble, musical, welcoming, trusting, self-conscious yet eager Sensitive, compulsive, morbidly obsessed with suffering, self-abasing (shame), confrontational Faced with the task of rationalizing conflicting impulses, I’ve married refined English taste with the Irish’ passionate thirst for life, [...]
By ArtBear | Published:
July 8, 2009
“So soon as they come, they do disappear.” “True words.” “No,” said Giovanni, after a pause, “there are no such things as true words.” When Giovanni spoke, it was like dancing, and he danced like poetry. “Truth is an invisible woman. We can never see her, words could never describe her. Rather, words are like [...]
By ArtBear | Published:
July 8, 2009
Arthor awoke: I’ve been here before. The room was his childhood living room… but the walls were unpainted and unvarnished, the room was dank and stale, and there was a conspicuous bed in the middle of it. I’ve been here before, he thought, and he pushed himself up from the bed to look around. The [...]
By ArtBear | Published:
July 7, 2009
This Cato Institute piece puts the spotlight on inconsistent statements of Joe Biden’s concerning the right of the USA to “dictate to another sovereign nation what they can and cannot do” in the context of a hypothetical attack on Iran by Isreal. When a politician starts talking about morals, pinch your nose and light a [...]
By ArtBear | Published:
July 6, 2009
Libertarians don’t necessarily believe that everything a government does is bad. Rather, we believe that everything a government does can be done better by an enterprising groups of individuals with minimal oversight. Government, at best, can be seen as a means by which a people can express their general interest. This implies that government subsidies [...]
By ArtBear | Published:
July 2, 2009
Walter raised his head, dropped his pen, stared from his chair into some empty space. Why this note? Why such a long poem of reasons and justifications, if he was to simply throw it away, to tear himself from the world with a spasm of a trigger finger? He read back to himself what he [...]
By ArtBear | Published:
July 2, 2009
“Must have been strong warrior human man to be able to beat down a Klingon woman!” Jokes often have an element of tragedy. Life is cruel and brutal more often than it’s sweet and endearing; a hearty soul knows a good laugh. It’s natural and right for the suffering of others to bring forth our [...]
